Charles Darrow hand-made Monopoly, 1933. Courtesy of the National Museum of Play at The Strong

Written by

Sandra Parker

A life-size Candy Land path winds past two giant game pieces - a black knight chess piece and an orange pawn from the game Sorry! - and through The Strong's new exhibit of games, from medieval-era chess to pop-culture Rubik's Cube.

Unlike the flashing and ringing electronic games across the hall, the games in this exhibit are silent; it's the players who make the noise. The display quietly traces 300 years of low-tech and no-tech games composed primarily of pictures printed on paper and glued to wood or cardboard. ...